Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Its a camera which has yet to come out against a camera which has too long been out and was a first out. The camera looks promising. We don't know what its price is set at yet. I predict will be seeing some good people using them. But it could go either way. We don't even know what this modular innovation might entail. I hear one might with the right lens make potato salad. -- Mark R. > From: John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:10:05 +1200 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] D700 or D7000 > > So (other than IR filters) what makes this better than an M8? > > john > > -----Original Message----- > > Its not > X2 crop its a X1.5 crop in a very compact and interestingly inovatitive > modular body. As I 'll never get my hands on 7 grand for an m9 it could be > something for me. > >> Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>> You are putting gorgeous Leica R glass on a cheap cropped camera marketed > to >>> amateurs and calling it "personal choice". I think of something else to >>> call it. One can do any damned dumb thing and file it under "personal >>> choice". >> >> What makes choices personal is that they're not universal. Like leaving >> gorgeous M lenses on a shelf rather than use them on a cropped body. > That's >> not dumb, it's a personal choice. >> >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information